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CSc 227 Program Design and Development Spring 2007 Lester I. McCann, Ph.D.

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General Class Information

• Class announcements (timely information)
• Class syllabus (general course information)
• Section Leader Lab Hours (when you can get help in the lab)
• Program Block Comment Details (comments to place ahead of your methods, classes, and program)
• Some thoughts about exams:
  • Characteristics of Good Exam Answers (suggestions on how to reply to short-answer exam questions)
  • Suggestions for Studying For and Taking Exams (what to do before and during an exam)

Class Handouts       (In case you lost your copy, or missed class)

• Class syllabus
• Tutorials ala Alex:
  • Java Installation Walkthrough
  • TextPad Installation Walkthrough
• Java keywords and operator precedence
• Java Primitive Data Types and Output Format Specifiers

Final Student Scores       (Updated after each exam has been graded)

• Final Class Grades (Updated: 2007/05/10)

Assignments

• Click here to 'turnin' your assignment electronically.

• Program #1: Your First Java Programs
• Program #2: Two Programs: Hailstones and One-Month Calendar
• Program #3: The WordHelper Class
  • Prog3Sample.java (Alex's sample testing program)
  • Program Block Comment Details (how to block-comment your class and methods, as well as your program)
• Program #4: Demons of Cyclic Space
  • "Computer Recreations: A cellular universe of debris, droplets, defects, and demons"
  • Checkerboard2.java (demos all acm.jar features you need for this assignment)
  • jtf.acm.org (The ACM Java Task Force home page)
  • The acm.jar API documentation
  • The acm.jar tutorial ((a) see Chapter 2 in particular; (b) it's 87 pages long, so think before you print it!)
• Program #5: Word Count
  • The sample text files: prog5a.dat prog5b.dat
• Program #6: Polynomials
• Program #7: Polynomials Revisited
• Program #8: Bemazed!
• Program #9: Recursion
  • A sample GTurtle program: Spiral.java
• Program #10: Binary Searching a Binary File
  • The county2k.bin file: county2k.bin
• Program #11: Decoding Prefix Codes
  Reference Materials       (Pointers to additional information)
  • The text for this semester is Objects, Abstraction, Data Structures and Design Using Java Version 5.0, by Elliot B. Koffman and Paul A.T. Wolfgang.
  • The Java API documentation is very, very useful.
  • Sample Programs:
    • Topic 1: Java.
      • Basics: T01n01.java T01n02.java T01n03.java T01n04.java
        Selection: T01n05.java T01n06.java T01n07.java
        Iteration: T01n08.java T01n09.java T01n10.java T01n11.java
        Strings: T01n12.java T01n13.java T01n14.java
        Wrapper Classes and Boxing: T01n15.java T01n16.java
        Static Methods and Parameters: T01n17.java
        Instantiable Classes: T01n18.java T01n19.java Fraction.java
        Arrays: T01n20.java T01n21.java T01n22.java T01n23.java T01n24.java
    • Topic 2: Exceptions
      • T02n01.java
    • Topic 3: Text and Binary Files DOS.txt UNIX.txt
      • File Info: T03n01.java
        Text File I/O: T03n02.java T03n03.java T03n04.java
        Binary File I/O: T03n05.java T03n06.java
    • Topic 4: Class Reuse
      • T04n01.java T04n02.java T04n03.java T04n04.java T04n05.java
    • Topic 5: Java Interfaces
      • Pre/Post-Conditions and Assertions: T05n01.java T05n02.java
        Interfaces: T05n03.java T05n04.java T05n05.java T05n06.java
    • Topic 6: General Lists T06n01.java
    • Topic 7: Array-based Lists T07n01.java
    • Topic 12: Recursion T12n01.java T12n02.java T12n03.java T12n04.java T12n05.java
    • Topic 15: Binary Search Trees T15n01.java T15n02.java
    • Miscellaneous: T0Mn01.java (TreeMap example)
  Miscellaneous       (A place for stuff that doesn't really fit anywhere else)
  • Collection of Common CS Service Links (Account application, compute CSID, etc.)
  • The Sorting Out Sorting movie by Prof. Ronald Baecker. He offers two Quicktime clips of the film:
    • Summary (Time: 3:16)
    • Last Scene (Time: 1:14)

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